Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Solitude is independence.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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